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Another picture paying tribute to one of the main Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters as a way to celebrate the upcoming 2012 television show and the upcoming 2014 film Ninja Turtles(BTW, the turtles will still be teenage mutants in both. Please spread the word when you have the opportunity).

This time, I make a picture chronicling the different incarnations of the Turtle-verse's resident mad scientist: Dr. Baxter Stockman! I had to try making this twice, and it was a drag! When I was making the first draft of this picture, deviantART Muro had some connection problems and took forever to Sta.sh my work.

After losing patience, I decided to start over from scratch, even though it managed to save a significant portion of my progress. It's probably for the best, as my first draft I was lazy and drew 2003 Baxter as just a brain in a jar. Plus the human version of 1987 Baxter had awful hair! Too bad I don't feel like adding his Mousers. Anyway, enjoy the following history of Baxter Stockman, but beware of spoilers!

Mirage Comics-

Unlike other incarnations, the original version of Baxter Stockman was an independent villain and had no connection with The Shredder. He was an African American scientist who had already made a ton of cash selling his own creations the Mousers, small robots designed to exterminate rats and possibly other pests.

Stockman, however, also uses his robots to commit crimes. His assistant April O'Neil asks him why he's doing this when he can make just as much money with his Mousers legally. His response? "Because it's fun!" He then tried to kill April with his Mousers, but the Turtles save her and defeat Baxter, sending him to jail.

Baxter Stockman would later return and put his brain into a robot body, plotting revenge against the Turtles. Leonardo electrocutes him, destroying him. Or so it seems.

Later, it is revealed that part of Baxter's robot body containing his brain had been hidden in the Turtles' lair in the sewers by Donatello. The smartest of the Turtles interrogates Stockman on how to save April from nanobots he had injected in her years ago, but the mad scientist just laughs and declares that she is doomed. In a fit of rage, Donatello kills Stockman by blowing him up.

1987 Animated Series-

Baxter Stockman would be featured as a recurring enemy of the Turtles in the 1987 cartoon, but would be completely changed. He was now a minion of The Shredder, but was also made Caucasian(they felt that The Shredder bossing around and bullying an African American Baxter Stockman would be seen as racist).

Stockman made his first appearance in the episode "A Thing About Rats", where he attempts to sell his Mousers to a pest control company. The head of the company, however, boots him out and points out that his machines are too efficient and could possibly kill all existing rats and put the company out of business.

The Shredder finds Stockman and takes him under his wing, having him mass-produce an army of Mousers to target Splinter and the Turtles. The plan would fail when Michelangelo shuts off the master control and Baxter Stockman would be sent to a mental asylum(which would probably happen to anybody who claims to have encountered a talking rat and four ninja turtles). Donatello would confiscate Baxter's van and retool it into the Turtle Van. Later, he would use Baxter's old workshop to make the Turtle Blimp to help fight Krang and his newly-built android body(a cleaning lady walks in on Donatello, but mistakes him for Stockman, believing he's green because he's overworked).

Baxter Stockman would later return in the season two premiere "Return of the Shredder", where Shredder breaks him out of the loony bin he was sent to after the events of "A Thing About Rats". Since then, Stockman would be the Shredder's right-hand man for a while. The Eye of Sarnath arc ended with him using the assembled pieces of the Eye of Sarnath to get back at Shredder for abusing him and to have revenge against the Turtles. He lost when the four terrapins exploited the Eye of Sarnath's weakness to gold.

Baxter would finally suffer a lasting fate in "Enter the Fly". The Shredder would give Stockman to Krang in Dimension X in exchange for the return of his two incompetent mutant thugs Bebop and Rocksteady. Since Krang himself was already vastly intelligent, he had no use for a human scientist and tried to disintegrate Baxter Stockman.

However, Shredder and Baxter had been contacting Krang from a garbage dump(Shredder suspects Krang arranged for that just to annoy him, and he is probably right), so Baxter had a fly cling to his clothes. The disintegration chamber fused his molecules with those of the fly, and he himself became a mutant fly-man.

The Shredder would convince Stockman it was the Turtles' fault that he was now a flying insect, but he ended up disintegrated by a machine meant to trap the Turtles in a void between time and space. He would later manage to reassemble himself via a lightning bolt, but the Turtles bested him yet again.

Later, he meets a sentient computer named Z, who helps Baxter by giving him a Mutazoo Ray, a device that turns creatures into other animals. He uses it to turn Shredder into a fly and also uses it to turn Michelangelo into a gerbil, but decides to not use it on Rocksteady and Bebop. When Z asks him why, Stockman answers that the two can't possibly be changed into anything uglier than they already are. Michelangelo is returned to normal, but Bebop and Rocksteady refuse to turn Shredder back to normal until he gives in to their demands(for a pair of brick-brains, they sure know how to take advantage of when their masters are vulnerable!)

Baxter escapes with Z, but the two end up trapped in an interdimensional limbo. Z would later help Baxter by taking over the Channel 6 building. At this moment, Baxter's fly mutation was starting to take its toll, as his intelligence seemed to be deteriorating and he started acting more like a fly.

The Turtles defeat Baxter and Z again and the two end up back where they started: Stranded in an interdimensional limbo.

A rather unusual episode featuring him would be "Landlord of the Flies", where Baxter seems to have regained his intelligence and returned without Z. Baxter has learned that he can control normal flies and tries to get rid of the Turtles when Krang promises to return him to normal in exchange. Bebop and Rocksteady also try to help Baxter, figuring that Krang would make them human again as well if they had a hand in rubbing the shellbacks out.

April O'Neil manages to use notes played from a piano to nullify Baxter's control over his insect friends, and the mutant fly is again banished to another dimension.

On his final appearance on the show, Baxter would return with Z and use Krang's mutagen and some stolen insect DNA to turn everyone in New York into mutant insects. The Turtles use Shredder's retromutagen ray to turn everyone to normal, but Z is destroyed and poor Baxter Stockman ends up back in the interdimensional limbo, doomed to spend eternity trapped in an empty void while stuck in the form of a giant flying insect. Too bad the Turtles didn't pity him and let him get his wish just this once.

Baxter also had a brother named Barney Stockman who appeared in the episode "Raphael Knock's 'Em Dead". He helped a gangster named Pinky McFingers use a joke amplifier to amplify the humor of the funniest jokes told by comedians they had kidnapped, so that the entire city would be paralyzed by laughter while McFingers and his gang would rob everyone blind. He was sent to jail, never to be seen again.

Baxter also appeared in the Archie Comics series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures, which was loosely based on the 1987 cartoon. In fact, the first issues of the comic were adaptations of actual episodes before the comic started going in its own direction. In the comic's adaptation of the Eye of Sarnath storyline, Shredder and Baxter only succeeded in obtaining half of the Eye of Sarnath and ended up empty-handed after an encounter with a mutant shark from the future named Armaggon.

Shredder and Armaggon get away, while Baxter is presumably left at the mercy of the Turtles and the police. He was never seen again except for a flashback in the Future Shark trilogy, and he was never mutated into a fly.

Movies-

Baxter Stockman was never in any of the movies, but his Mousers can be seen among other relics on Splinter's shrine in the 2007 CGI film TMNT.

2003 Animated Series-

The 2003 version of Baxter Stockman is an interesting incarnation. He is an African American like in the Mirage series, but he also works for The Shredder like his 1987 counterpart. April O'Neil was once again Baxter's former assistant, when other versions had her as a news reporter with no connection to Stockman.

Unlike the 1987 Baxter Stockman, who at worst would be subject to slapstick injury, this version of Baxter Stockman would suffer much harsher punishments. Every time Baxter would fail to get rid of the Turtles, The Shredder would have Hun, leader of a street gang called the Purple Dragons, dismember the poor scientist.

Stockman would eventually deceive Shredder after the Turtles survived an attack by the Foot in order to study an Utrom exosuit The Shredder had in his possession. He faked evidence to make it appear the Turtles had died, then used what he learned from studying the exosuit to make him a large robot body capable of incredible combat.

After each defeat, Stockman would continue to have new robot bodies, one given to him by an obsessive admirer named Dr. Chaplin(who would later lose all respect he had for him when he completely betrayed The Shredder).

After leaving Shredder, Stockman would then become affiliated with Agent Bishop and attempt to clone a new body(which would lead to "Insane in the Membrane", regarded by many fans as being the darkest and most depressing episode of this incarnation of the Turtles). Eventually, Stockman would no longer work for Bishop and become an independent villain as he was in the original comic.

Baxter made an appearance in the Fast Forward season in the episode "Head of State". While Bishop no longer hates aliens and is now President of the P.G.A.(Pan Galactic Alliance), Stockman is revealed to be still alive, now a brain mixed with alien DNA. Bishop manages to calm Stockman down and tells him that he can have a new body cloned. The Department of Agriculture are also interested in his Mousers. One of the episodes in the cancelled second season of Fast Forward is entitled "The Devil and Dr. Stockman", but I haven't found any information about it.

Stockman would also return in the Back to the Sewer season, again given a new body. In his first appearance in this season, the Cyber Shredder escapes cyberspace by possessing Stockman and grafting pieces of metal shaped into parts of Shredder's trademark armor onto his body. The Turtles manage to free Stockman and send Cyber Shredder back to cyberspace.

Stockman's final appearance in the 2003 cartoon was in the webisode "Mayhem on Mutant Island", where he creates an army of dinosaur mutants, but Donatello gains control of them and makes them docile and friendly, leaving Baxter to be chased by his own creations. Someone doesn't like hugs!

2012 Animated Series-

Baxter Stockman is confirmed to appear in the 2012 show, voiced by Phil LaMarr. While the show has had some influence from the 1987 cartoon, Baxter appears to be more based on the Mirage and 2003 versions(a sketch for his figure in the toyline depicts him as an African American cyborg, or at least wearing some suit of armor).

Now that I have the Turtles' Rogues Gallery out of the way, I only have to do tribute pictures for the Turtles and their allies.

TMNT (c) Nickelodeon

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Made with deviantART muro

Another picture paying tribute to one of the main Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters as a way to celebrate the upcoming 2012 television show and the upcoming 2014 film Ninja Turtles(BTW, the turtles will still be teenage mutants in both. Please spread the word when you have the opportunity).

This time, I make a picture chronicling the different incarnations of the Turtle-verse's resident mad scientist: Dr. Baxter Stockman! I had to try making this twice, and it was a drag! When I was making the first draft of this picture, deviantART Muro had some connection problems and took forever to Sta.sh my work.

After losing patience, I decided to start over from scratch, even though it managed to save a significant portion of my progress. It's probably for the best, as my first draft I was lazy and drew 2003 Baxter as just a brain in a jar. Plus the human version of 1987 Baxter had awful hair! Too bad I don't feel like adding his Mousers. Anyway, enjoy the following history of Baxter Stockman, but beware of spoilers!

Mirage Comics-

Unlike other incarnations, the original version of Baxter Stockman was an independent villain and had no connection with The Shredder. He was an African American scientist who had already made a ton of cash selling his own creations the Mousers, small robots designed to exterminate rats and possibly other pests.

Stockman, however, also uses his robots to commit crimes. His assistant April O'Neil asks him why he's doing this when he can make just as much money with his Mousers legally. His response? "Because it's fun!" He then tried to kill April with his Mousers, but the Turtles save her and defeat Baxter, sending him to jail.

Baxter Stockman would later return and put his brain into a robot body, plotting revenge against the Turtles. Leonardo electrocutes him, destroying him. Or so it seems.

Later, it is revealed that part of Baxter's robot body containing his brain had been hidden in the Turtles' lair in the sewers by Donatello. The smartest of the Turtles interrogates Stockman on how to save April from nanobots he had injected in her years ago, but the mad scientist just laughs and declares that she is doomed. In a fit of rage, Donatello kills Stockman by blowing him up.

1987 Animated Series-

Baxter Stockman would be featured as a recurring enemy of the Turtles in the 1987 cartoon, but would be completely changed. He was now a minion of The Shredder, but was also made Caucasian(they felt that The Shredder bossing around and bullying an African American Baxter Stockman would be seen as racist).

Stockman made his first appearance in the episode "A Thing About Rats", where he attempts to sell his Mousers to a pest control company. The head of the company, however, boots him out and points out that his machines are too efficient and could possibly kill all existing rats and put the company out of business.

The Shredder finds Stockman and takes him under his wing, having him mass-produce an army of Mousers to target Splinter and the Turtles. The plan would fail when Michelangelo shuts off the master control and Baxter Stockman would be sent to a mental asylum(which would probably happen to anybody who claims to have encountered a talking rat and four ninja turtles). Donatello would confiscate Baxter's van and retool it into the Turtle Van. Later, he would use Baxter's old workshop to make the Turtle Blimp to help fight Krang and his newly-built android body(a cleaning lady walks in on Donatello, but mistakes him for Stockman, believing he's green because he's overworked).

Baxter Stockman would later return in the season two premiere "Return of the Shredder", where Shredder breaks him out of the loony bin he was sent to after the events of "A Thing About Rats". Since then, Stockman would be the Shredder's right-hand man for a while. The Eye of Sarnath arc ended with him using the assembled pieces of the Eye of Sarnath to get back at Shredder for abusing him and to have revenge against the Turtles. He lost when the four terrapins exploited the Eye of Sarnath's weakness to gold.

Baxter would finally suffer a lasting fate in "Enter the Fly". The Shredder would give Stockman to Krang in Dimension X in exchange for the return of his two incompetent mutant thugs Bebop and Rocksteady. Since Krang himself was already vastly intelligent, he had no use for a human scientist and tried to disintegrate Baxter Stockman.

However, Shredder and Baxter had been contacting Krang from a garbage dump(Shredder suspects Krang arranged for that just to annoy him, and he is probably right), so Baxter had a fly cling to his clothes. The disintegration chamber fused his molecules with those of the fly, and he himself became a mutant fly-man.

The Shredder would convince Stockman it was the Turtles' fault that he was now a flying insect, but he ended up disintegrated by a machine meant to trap the Turtles in a void between time and space. He would later manage to reassemble himself via a lightning bolt, but the Turtles bested him yet again.

Later, he meets a sentient computer named Z, who helps Baxter by giving him a Mutazoo Ray, a device that turns creatures into other animals. He uses it to turn Shredder into a fly and also uses it to turn Michelangelo into a gerbil, but decides to not use it on Rocksteady and Bebop. When Z asks him why, Stockman answers that the two can't possibly be changed into anything uglier than they already are. Michelangelo is returned to normal, but Bebop and Rocksteady refuse to turn Shredder back to normal until he gives in to their demands(for a pair of brick-brains, they sure know how to take advantage of when their masters are vulnerable!)

Baxter escapes with Z, but the two end up trapped in an interdimensional limbo. Z would later help Baxter by taking over the Channel 6 building. At this moment, Baxter's fly mutation was starting to take its toll, as his intelligence seemed to be deteriorating and he started acting more like a fly.

The Turtles defeat Baxter and Z again and the two end up back where they started: Stranded in an interdimensional limbo.

A rather unusual episode featuring him would be "Landlord of the Flies", where Baxter seems to have regained his intelligence and returned without Z. Baxter has learned that he can control normal flies and tries to get rid of the Turtles when Krang promises to return him to normal in exchange. Bebop and Rocksteady also try to help Baxter, figuring that Krang would make them human again as well if they had a hand in rubbing the shellbacks out.

April O'Neil manages to use notes played from a piano to nullify Baxter's control over his insect friends, and the mutant fly is again banished to another dimension.

On his final appearance on the show, Baxter would return with Z and use Krang's mutagen and some stolen insect DNA to turn everyone in New York into mutant insects. The Turtles use Shredder's retromutagen ray to turn everyone to normal, but Z is destroyed and poor Baxter Stockman ends up back in the interdimensional limbo, doomed to spend eternity trapped in an empty void while stuck in the form of a giant flying insect. Too bad the Turtles didn't pity him and let him get his wish just this once.

Baxter also had a brother named Barney Stockman who appeared in the episode "Raphael Knock's 'Em Dead". He helped a gangster named Pinky McFingers use a joke amplifier to amplify the humor of the funniest jokes told by comedians they had kidnapped, so that the entire city would be paralyzed by laughter while McFingers and his gang would rob everyone blind. He was sent to jail, never to be seen again.

Baxter also appeared in the Archie Comics series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures, which was loosely based on the 1987 cartoon. In fact, the first issues of the comic were adaptations of actual episodes before the comic started going in its own direction. In the comic's adaptation of the Eye of Sarnath storyline, Shredder and Baxter only succeeded in obtaining half of the Eye of Sarnath and ended up empty-handed after an encounter with a mutant shark from the future named Armaggon.

Shredder and Armaggon get away, while Baxter is presumably left at the mercy of the Turtles and the police. He was never seen again except for a flashback in the Future Shark trilogy, and he was never mutated into a fly.

Movies-

Baxter Stockman was never in any of the movies, but his Mousers can be seen among other relics on Splinter's shrine in the 2007 CGI film TMNT.

2003 Animated Series-

The 2003 version of Baxter Stockman is an interesting incarnation. He is an African American like in the Mirage series, but he also works for The Shredder like his 1987 counterpart. April O'Neil was once again Baxter's former assistant, when other versions had her as a news reporter with no connection to Stockman.

Unlike the 1987 Baxter Stockman, who at worst would be subject to slapstick injury, this version of Baxter Stockman would suffer much harsher punishments. Every time Baxter would fail to get rid of the Turtles, The Shredder would have Hun, leader of a street gang called the Purple Dragons, dismember the poor scientist.

Stockman would eventually deceive Shredder after the Turtles survived an attack by the Foot in order to study an Utrom exosuit The Shredder had in his possession. He faked evidence to make it appear the Turtles had died, then used what he learned from studying the exosuit to make him a large robot body capable of incredible combat.

After each defeat, Stockman would continue to have new robot bodies, one given to him by an obsessive admirer named Dr. Chaplin(who would later lose all respect he had for him when he completely betrayed The Shredder).

After leaving Shredder, Stockman would then become affiliated with Agent Bishop and attempt to clone a new body(which would lead to "Insane in the Membrane", regarded by many fans as being the darkest and most depressing episode of this incarnation of the Turtles). Eventually, Stockman would no longer work for Bishop and become an independent villain as he was in the original comic.

Baxter made an appearance in the Fast Forward season in the episode "Head of State". While Bishop no longer hates aliens and is now President of the P.G.A.(Pan Galactic Alliance), Stockman is revealed to be still alive, now a brain mixed with alien DNA. Bishop manages to calm Stockman down and tells him that he can have a new body cloned. The Department of Agriculture are also interested in his Mousers. One of the episodes in the cancelled second season of Fast Forward is entitled "The Devil and Dr. Stockman", but I haven't found any information about it.

Stockman would also return in the Back to the Sewer season, again given a new body. In his first appearance in this season, the Cyber Shredder escapes cyberspace by possessing Stockman and grafting pieces of metal shaped into parts of Shredder's trademark armor onto his body. The Turtles manage to free Stockman and send Cyber Shredder back to cyberspace.

Stockman's final appearance in the 2003 cartoon was in the webisode "Mayhem on Mutant Island", where he creates an army of dinosaur mutants, but Donatello gains control of them and makes them docile and friendly, leaving Baxter to be chased by his own creations. Someone doesn't like hugs!

2012 Animated Series-

Baxter Stockman is confirmed to appear in the 2012 show, voiced by Phil LaMarr. While the show has had some influence from the 1987 cartoon, Baxter appears to be more based on the Mirage and 2003 versions(a sketch for his figure in the toyline depicts him as an African American cyborg, or at least wearing some suit of armor).

Now that I have the Turtles' Rogues Gallery out of the way, I only have to do tribute pictures for the Turtles and their allies.

TMNT (c) Nickelodeon